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ISBN: 9780061743924 | Format: eBook | Release Date: 13/10/2009
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A hilarious series of culinary adventures from GQ's award-winning food critic, ranging from flunking out of the Paul Bocuse school in Lyon to dining and whining with Sharon Stone.
Alan Richman has dined in more unlikely locations and devoured more tasting menus than any other restaurant critic alive. He has reviewed restaurants in almost every Communist country (China, Vietnam, Cuba, East Germany) and has recklessly indulged his enduring passion for eight-course dinners (plus cheese). All of this attests to his herculean constitution, and to his dedication to food writing.
In Fork It Over, the eight-time winner of the James Beard Award retraces decades of culinary adventuring. In one episode, he reviews a Chicago restaurant owned and operated by Louis Farrakhan (not known to be a fan of Jewish restaurant critics) and completes the assignment by sneaking into services at the Nation of Islam mosque, where no whites are allowed. In Cuba, he defies government regulations by interviewing starving political dissidents, and then he rewards himself with a lobster lunch at the most expensive restaurant in Havana. He chiffonades his way to a failing grade at the Paul Bocuse school in Lyon, politely endures Sharon Stone's notions of fine dining, and explains why you can't get a good meal in Boston, spurred on by the reckless passion for food that made him "e;the only soldier he knows who gained weight while in Vietnam"e; and carried him from his neighborhood burger joint to Le Bernardin.
Alan Richman, once described as the "e;Indiana Jones of food writers,"e; has won more major awards than any other food writer alive, including a National Magazine Award, eight James Beard Awards for restaurant reviewing, and two James Beard M.F.K. Fisher distinguished writing awards.
The all new cover will emphasize Richman's globetrotting persona and attract a wide audience
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Mowat took his idea to Edmonton's Pecha Kucha Night 14 Thursday evening in Edmonton and shared it publicly for the first time.
The presentation, at the Myer Horowitz Theatre on the University of Alberta campus, was organized by Edmonton's NextGen, a group devoted to sharing ideas and building community.
Pecha Kucha itself means "chit chat" in Japanese, a term that has spawned the worldwide phenomenon that goes by the same name. At Pecha Kucha nights, presenters explore topics in a series of slides, each of which is on the screen for only 20 seconds.
Mowat shared with the audience slides of illuminated bridges in New York, Vancouver and Budapest, along with the Eiffel Tower, to make the point that monuments look spectacular when lit up. And they make people feel proud. Thanks to some Photoshop touches, he also shared what the Groat, High Level and Low Level bridges in Edmonton might look like with some light added.
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Those who have suffered from Migraine or seen someone with it knows how painful the condition can be. I personally have suffered from it for years together. Although I no longer suffer from it anymore after undergoing a homeopathic treatment for it for over than a year, even the mere thought of it still can give me shivers. Whenever I use to get a migraine if I am at home I use to tie a cloth on my eyes, close the curtains of my room and try to get some sleep which does not come easy either. If I am at work, my pounding head and pain would not permit me to concentrate on work and I always had to take permission from my superior and rush home because most of the time the tablets fail to give relief too. However, it is better to avoid popping Painkillers and stick on to natural remedies because of the numerous side effects it can have including Painkiller Addiction.
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Where did you find this ?!?! It was very insightful. I wonder if they have something written up for other characters too.
From here...
Also, this quote from Maggin pretty much explains why I like Clark Kent (as the world sees him) as someone Superman created and part of what makes Superman/Clark Kent so different from other comic book characters. I mean, he even has his own Wikipedia page. How many of superheroes have that? Anyway...
Does Clark Kent Put on a Costume to Become Superman, Or Does Superman Put on a Costume to Become Clark Kent?
Most of the latter-day Superman writers, and several of my own contemporaries, come down on the side of the notion that Clark is the real person and Superman is just what he can do. I don't agree with that at all and here's why:
The hero must be the character's best self. When Odysseus appeared at home disguised as a beggar the big resolution was that he was "really" Odysseus. When young Arthur yanked the sword from the stone what that revealed, even to himself, was that he was the king and always had been. When the prince of Egypt, for just his own sense of rage and righteousness, killed a taskmaster and was banished for taking the side of the slaves, only then did his real origin become clear to those around him. In every classical setting the hero first arrives in disguise and Superman is, at the very least, our own age's quintessential classical hero.
Superman is, among many other things, an artist. When the rest of us create a character, that character is as well defined as we can make him. The comic book medium gave birth to our own classical hero because only in a medium that crude, whose end product is that apparently unfinished, can a creator so effectively suggest a concept of such endless potency. Clark is a complete creation of Superman, so complete that he's effectively real. Clark is a natural born citizen. He votes. He has jealousies and shortcomings. He has opinions, real ones that occasionally diverge from those of Superman. They have altogether different spiritual beliefs, for example. Clark has appropriately nerdy hobbies. He scrapbooks, for heaven's sakes. He collects his favorite classic TV commercials on DVD. His favorite is the one for the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce where the old man skips out of the retirement home to meet his grandson in the parking lot ("Hey, Boo-boo.") and rides off for a weekend of gambling and debauchery.
Superman can't do the stuff Clark can do. Not that he wouldn't if he didn't have a sacred duty to perform, but he can't. So not only is Clark a construct for the purposes of guarding what measure of privacy he requires for his own emotional self-preservation, but Clark is the outlet that allows Superman to do the things that a Superman can't do in public. Clark can, and that makes him Superman's saving grace. Clark, the character, doesn't need Superman, but Superman, the real deal, absolutely needs Clark. That's why Superman created Clark and not the other way around. He created Clark and re-creates him every day.
Every day the President of the United States wakes up and puts on the raiment once worn by Lincoln and who he really is, during the period of his Presidency, is the President of he United States. And you call him "Mr President" for the rest of his life.
When he gets up in the morning the Heavyweight Champion of he World, whoever he was when he was born, embodies the mantle once carried by Ali and Louis, and from the moment someone says good morning that's who he is, really. I once lost an arm wrestling contest with Jack Dempsey on the sidewalk outside the "21″ Club. He was 76 and I was 22 and do you think the old man would let the swaggering kid win and impress the girl he's with? He couldn't possibly. What he did was damn near break my arm and then said, "Winner gets the redhead, okay?" He was so profoundly "the Champ" that not even his closest friends thought of him as just Jack.
I once created a thing called "Lexcorp." It was just a throwaway word in a story I wrote. But I thought about it for a long time and I was very happy when I came up with the name. It's my name, and every time someone uses it I take a measure of pride in its use. I get to be the guy who first said that eventually Luthor evolves from a super-villain in a prison jump suit with a collection of wacky gizmos in a hidden basement somewhere, into a big badass industrialist. Obviously other people have done more with the concept than I ever did. Lexcorp has evolved into a major institution in Superman's continuity and that was through no doing of my own. But I do insist that whenever someone somewhere mentions the "creation" of Lexcorp I get the credit as, properly in the continuity, Martha and Jonathan Kent certainly get the credit for first creating the concept of Clark Kent. But it is others who refined and continue to build Lexcorp. And every day that he gets up in the morning and goes to work, Superman goes far beyond the Kents' original germ of an idea to build Clark.
Clark is real. That's the whole brilliance of the concept. But the concept is even more "real" within the context of the storytelling than the storytelling can represent. That's why the character is and thinks of himself as Superman.
I also still need to check out Miracle Monday because of this...
I've always been more comfortable with the idea of Superman being the real guy and Clark Kent being the mask, the disguise. That's the Superman Maggin's writing here and it's a beautiful thing. Early in the book, he confronts this idea directly by having Pa Kent dream about a despotic Superboy gradually coming to use his power to rule the Earth in any way he chooses. Later, there are lovely passages wherein Maggin has Superman detail just how much he loves Clark Kent and how hard he works on making the Kent identity believable. Check this passage out to see what I mean:
The novel continues to approach the concept of secret identity in interesting ways, but revealing those aspects would put us solidly in spoiler territory, so I'll abstain. Suffice to say, Maggin does good work with the title character and pokes him in new directions vis a vis his dual nature.
With that in mind, you can have a more informed look as to why Bill's explanation of Clark Kent in Kill Bill is all wrong. But, he is a villain after all and that influences his point of view. Lex Luthor wouldn't say anything positive about Superman too. Superman would likely indicate how Clark Kent is much like Pa Kent. A mild mannered bespectacled man. Ma Kent's often shown to wear glasses as well. So, there's no judgement of humans as weaklings. But, a love for them.
And on that note, to me the whole geeky Clark Kent is just reflective of its times. What would be a called a geek in Reeve's time is different from today. So, I don't think Clark needs to be depicted as bumbling fool. This can currently be seen in the New 52, which has Superman/Clark Kent more like he was in the Golden Age.
I was at some diplomatic party once. Got to talking to
who told me that when it came to
, I was
missing the point
told me, "His real strength lay in his
what's fair."
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He's much more of a
working class superhero
, which is why we ended the whole book with the image of
a laboring Superman
operating on a sci–fi
Paul Bunyan
- Grant Morrison
"Self Portrait"
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Northern Lights.mn announces two years of artists addressing global climate change: Northern Spark 2016 (June 11) through Northern Spark 2017 (June 10). Under the united theme Climate Chaos | Climate Rising, these two incredible nights of art focused on Earth's changing environment will be connected by interactive projects, events and workshops in sites across the Twin Cities, each exploring how artists grapple with and envision new approaches to the climate challenges we face globally.
Over the next two years Northern Spark takes on this challenge through the lenses of migration, nourishment, interconnectedness, perception and civic action. Our programming begins in winter of 2016 by delving into issues such as the future of food, new relationships to non-human species, and radical river ecologies, and culminates in the summer of 2017 in the biggest Northern Spark yet, with innovative, interactive art projects filling the landscape along the Green Line—from Minneapolis through the neighborhoods of St. Paul to its terminus in Lowertown.
On JUNE 11, 2016, Northern Spark will ignite our theme with an immersive, thought-provoking art festival, workshops, and lectures on urgent questions around the future of Earth's environment.
At dusk the festival will open at the Minneapolis Convention Center with the unveiling of the newest winner of the Creative City Challenge. The festival will continue all night long in Minneapolis's Mill District as audiences explore climate topics—Move, Nourish, Interconnect, Perceive, Act—through giant video projections, performances and installations in the streets, and in green spaces and under bridges along the waterfront. Food trucks will offer snacks and drinks throughout the night and audiences can relax in a specially commissioned "chill" conversation space constructed out of ice harvested from Minnesota lakes during the winter.
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I have been so busy with my shoots AND still out on the road with book signings and presentations with my book,
"Bruce Springsteen In Focus 1980-2012." It has been really wonderful meeting so many people and hearing their stories and talking photography. I was interviewed yesterday for WCCC in Hartford, CT (Howard Stern's old station) and they asked me if the people coming to the presentations were only interested in speaking about Bruce or photography as well and it made me think-and it also made me happy when I realized how many people LOVE photography as much as I do. May 19th is 30 years since I graduated college and became a professional photographer (making a living solely from creating images) and I have never considered what I do "work."
I headed off to Atlanta for a book presentation and signing at the Barnes and Noble in Buckhead. Allergies and bronchitis have me totally wiped out but the Southern Hospitality was amazing. Some observations about Atlanta:
1.Karen Kirk runs an AMAZING Barnes and Noble in Buckhead. She and her staff are top notch. Upon walking into her store, the first thing I spotted was a wooden piece with the word BELIEVE..this is what I write in my book! It set the mood for the night.
2. EVERYONE in Atlanta in SOOOOOO friendly
3. the cops are really cute, and they all say "hello" when passing on the street
4. there are a lot of handsome men down there. Other than my husband, I don't see many in NYC anymore. A friend keeps telling me "Rudy Guiliani got rid of all the cute guys"
5. the Best Western Plus inn on Peachtree downtown is a great place to stay with the friendliest staff!
6. the Ampitheater is a nice place to see a concert. The security staff there are some of the friendliest I have EVER encountered
7. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band put on a KICK ASS concert!
8. Atlanta is HOT!
9. as much as I liked it "down there..." I am HAPPY to be home with my 3 boys!
This was the first time I ever traveled without a "real" camera...meaning my DSLR. I packed a tiny point and shoot camera and other than a card fail resulting in only a few images that I was unable to retreive in image recovery, I was not at all disappointed. I have never shot a concert with only a point and shoot and I was pleased.
Bruce Springsteen In Focus 1980-2012 is now almost sold out of it's 4th printing. It may be out of print soon so if you haven't ordered it and want to, your best bet is to order is ASAP. It can be signed if you order directly from my publisher:
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Hello fellow doggies!
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Dogs living in Chicago must be registered and licensed by the Chicago City Clerk's Office. A major benefit of having a licensed dog is that the owner whose pet wears the license can be notified if a lost or stray dog ends in the care of the city's Animal Care and Control Center. New this year, the tags also carry the City Clerk's office phone number to aid in the search and retrieval of your pet.
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Niko Kovac uniting nations in Eintracht Frankfurt's European push
Eintracht Frankfurt coach Niko Kovac is certainly in credit in Europe's financial capital. The former Croatia boss is approaching two years in charge at the Commerzbank Arena, in which time he has turned Eintracht from relegation strugglers into European contenders by bringing nations together and shaping them into a formidable force in the Bundesliga.
Eintracht were in dire straits when Kovac took over on 8 March 2016. The Eagles found themselves in 16th – the relegation play-off position – when they dismissed Armin Veh and made the rather surprising decision to appoint Kovac to his first club job as a head coach, alongside his brother Robert as assistant.
A respectable four wins from his first eight games in charge had Frankfurt sitting in the safety of 15th going into the final outing of the season, but a last-minute defeat at direct rivals Werder Bremen, who began the day in 16th, saw the sides swap places and Eintracht faced the drama of a relegation play-off against Nuremberg.
A 1-1 draw in Frankfurt left the tie tantalisingly poised for the return leg just four days later, where Haris Seferovic netted the only goal of the game to secure the Eagles' Bundesliga status. It was job done for Kovac, and having now nestled in, he was able to set about turning his flock around for the long flight ahead.
That summer Kovac, along with sporting director Bruno Hübner, oversaw a deep clean of the Frankfurt squad. Fringe players were moved on, as well as the experienced Carlos Zambrano and Stefan Aigner. As it had with its coach, the club gambled on a number of inexperienced players from around the world. The likes of Jesus Vallejo from Real Madrid, Guillermo Varela from Manchester United, Michael Hector from Chelsea and Ante Rebic from Fiorentina all moved to Frankfurt on loan.
With a squad he had assembled and trusted, Kovac was able to set to work. His first job was getting a group of players consisting of 17 different nationalities to work as one. When asked about his multinational squad at the start of the season, the Berlin-born son of Croatian immigrants dryly replied: "We're in Europe, it means nothing."
When the question was raised of fans struggling to identify with such a diverse team, Kovac calmly responded: "This isn't Brexit or Fraxit, we're not concerned about politics – we play football. It's about performing. Those doing best will play, regardless of their age, looks or whether they're German or not.
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"Our working language is German," he later added. "Everyone is obliged to learn German. We speak other languages so we can help people at the start, but there's also the language of football, and everyone speaks that on the pitch."
Among the bedding in, Kovac's main objective was to turn around his side's fortunes. Quickly settling on a back four of Timmy Chandler, David Abraham, Vallejo and Bastian Oczipka, the Eagles began to soar in the early weeks of 2016/17 and sat fifth after five games.
An early season highlight came on Matchday 7 as Eintracht held champions Bayern Munich to a 2-2 draw at the Commerzbank Arena. The result was much more than a timely feather in Kovac's cap as it was the game he stumbled upon a new formation that looked to suit his squad.
Switching to a back-three with Chandler and Oczipka moving into wing-back roles, Eintracht embarked on a run that saw them collect 24 of a possible 36 points in their next 12 games, losing just twice.
With natural centre-backs Abraham and Vallejo now separated at the back by playmaker Makoto Hasebe, Kovac's side reached a season high of third just after the campaign's halfway stage.
The team that had only survived the previous season via the play-offs was now a fearsome defensive unit. Eintracht were not just grinding out wins, but turning their home into a fortress. Frankfurt remained unbeaten at the Commerzbank Arena in the first half of the season and boasted the second-best defence in the league after 19 games (just 15 conceded, with nine clean sheets).
It's an improvement that can be traced directly back to Kovac himself. "You can achieve a lot with organisation, responsibility and discipline," the 46-year-old once told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Preaching such morals and being demanding in training are features of Kovac as a coach, but the figure seen on the touchline also bears striking resemblances to his time as a player.
Lacing his boots for Hertha Berlin, Bayer Leverkusen, Hamburg and Bayern in the Bundesliga, as well as winning 83 caps for Croatia, Kovac was both a tenacious and strategic midfielder. Virtues he has now passed on to his Eintracht team.
Watch: Owo meets Timothy Chandler
While the second half of the 2016/17 season did not quite reach the same heights as the first, Frankfurt still finished Kovac's first full campaign in charge in a respectable 11th place. The hope of a European place via the league had slipped away, but Eintracht's season did not end with their game against RB Leipzig on Matchday 34.
Kovac had guided his Eagles to a first DFB Cup final in a decade, but the title and subsequent UEFA Europa League place evaded Eintracht as they fell at the final hurdle in Berlin against Borussia Dortmund.
Speaking to the DFB's official website after the defeat, Kovac reasserted his satisfaction at his team's efforts. "Of course we're disappointed, but my pride in the fact we pushed Dortmund all the way outweighs that." Asked about his summary of the season, he was full of positives: "This campaign was extraordinarily good. We ended it well with the final, and now we'll try to be even better again next season."
And it appears to have been a rallying cry that his players have heard and fully understood.
Kovac again had to lead a rebuilding project during the summer as a number of players, including the aforementioned loanees and first-choice left-back Oczipka, all left the club. Eintracht again brought in reinforcements, but learnt their lesson from the previous campaign and signed more players on permanent deals so they could create some continuity in the improving side.
Jetro Willems joined as replacement for Schalke-bound Oczipka, while this season's top scorer Sebastien Haller, Simon Falette and full-back Danny da Costa all arrived for relatively small fees. Carlos Salcedo and Luka Jovic both joined on loan, while the invaluable experience of Kevin-Prince Boateng arrived on a free transfer.
New faces and more new languages in the Frankfurt dressing room, but Kovac again looks to have gotten his United Nations of players pulling in the same direction and with the same relentless force.
Watch: Boateng in 60 Seconds Under Pressure
After 22 games last season, Eintracht were in sixth with 35 points to their name, but had just lost for a third game in a row as they began to slip down the table in the second half of the season.
A lacklustre 3-0 loss at Augsburg on Matchday 21 threatened to spark bouts of deja-vu in Frankfurt. Kovac summed that result up as "just one of those days", but behind the scenes he set about putting it right.
Eintracht bounced back with a resounding 4-2 win over Cologne, with the Billy Goats' goals only coming from the penalty spot and as a result of goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky's mistake. That moved them up to fourth and into a UEFA Champions League place.
The club have the second-best defence in the Bundesliga, and have also added another string to their bow this season with their improved away form, which is the second-best record of any team this season – just four points fewer than runaway league leaders Bayern.
The Eagles also find themselves in the semi-finals of the DFB Cup for a second consecutive year, making Kovac only the third coach in the club's history after Dietrich Weise and Friedhelm Funkel to achieve the feat. They will travel to Schalke in mid-April hoping to set up a final clash against Leverkusen or Bayern.
Eintracht are in an almost identical position as they were at the same stage last year. Now it's about avoiding the slip-ups of last season and going one better in the league and possibly the cup.
Kovac is the one driving that push forward, yet the coach seemingly remains the most grounded of the lot in Frankfurt. "Eintracht are not a world-class team, just an ordinary one," he said after the win over Cologne. "We have room for improvement. Not by talking, though, but by doing."
Sporting director Hübner was more outwardly hopeful following that victory, believing that if the club continued on its upward trajectory that they could "turn a good season into a super one".
Watch: Haller's world-class strike that won the 2017 Goal of the Year award
Hübner has not made public the club's objectives for the season, but has made one aim clear: "We have to extend Kovac's contract." Perhaps a dream of Hübner's, but the club's most successful Bundesliga coach since the 1980s is not one to turn away from reality and the present. "Those who dream get overtaken," he once said.
Kovac's job now is therefore to make sure no Eintracht heads get stuck in the clouds, and to push his side on to keep them ahead of their opponents in an incredibly tight European chase. And maybe add that first piece of managerial silverware to his collection as well.
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With Newt Gingrich the current frontrunner for the GOP nomination and the recent implosion of the Herman Cain campaign, here's a look at fates of the last few GOP presidential candidates that were once the frontrunner (i.e. Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry).
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The Magazine for Underwater Professionals
Mar/Apr 2016
Soft robotic grippers improve ability to collect delicate u/w specimens
During a 2014 talk on his exploration of deep-sea coral reefs, marine biologist David Gruber showed a video of clunky robotic hands collecting fragile specimens of coral and sponges from the ocean floor. Harvard University, USA, engineer and roboticist Robert J. Wood was in the audience – the two scientists were being recognised as emerging explorers by the National Geographic Society – and a lightbulb went off.
"They were using rigid Jaws of Life-type grippers designed for the oil and gas industry that were totally overpowered and were destroying things," recalls Wood, who is a professor at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and faculty member at the university's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. "It immediately clicked that there was a soft robotics solution that may be viable."
In the months that followed, the pair collaborated to design, fabricate and test soft robotic grippers for deep-sea collection of fragile biological specimens. Their 2015 expedition to the Gulf of Eilat in the northern Red Sea, a unique marine ecosystem that houses one of the world's largest and most diverse coral reefs, marked the first use of soft robotics for the non-destructive sampling of fauna from the ocean floor.
Gruber, an associate professor at Baruch College, City University of New York, USA, explores deep-ocean ecosystems with a particular focus on organisms that display bioluminescent and biofluorescent traits. When he wants to visit a coral reef below the maximum depth that human divers can tolerate, Gruber relies on a remotely operated vehicle.
But there was a problem: the standard-issue robotic "hands" of underwater ROVs are ill-suited to collecting delicate coral, sponge and other samples because the equipment was designed for undersea construction and to install and repair submerged pipelines. In contrast, manipulating and grasping fragile organisms from the seafloor requires something that can mimic the dexterity and soft touch of a human diver's hand. Wood recognised that soft robotics were tailor-made for the task.
As described in a paper published in the journal Soft Robotics, the team successfully developed two types of grippers and in the process demonstrated a new fabrication technique that allows for the rapid creation of soft actuators. The new technology could enhance researchers' ability to collect samples from largely unexplored habitats thousands of feet beneath the ocean surface, areas that scientists believe are biodiversity hotspots teeming with un-known life. The soft grippers could also be useful in underwater archeology.
Wood and Kevin Galloway, a mechanical engineer at the Wyss Institute, set about designing two types of hands to replace the ROV's factory-furnished metal gripper, each capable of gently recovering objects of different sizes and shapes. One, inspired by the coiling action of a boa constrictor, can access tight spaces and clutch small and irregular shaped objects. The other, a bellows-style model, features opposing pairs of bending actuators.
To facilitate rapid in-field modification and repair, the team emphasised simple construction, inexpensive materials and a modular design. This meant they could try multiple configurations and make them in quantity. Harvard's Office of Technology Development has filed a patent application on the team's method for the manufacture of bellows-type soft actuators. The method is scalable, opening up a wide range of commercial, biomedical and industrial applications for this type of actuator.
The biggest design challenge, Wood says, was a lack of precise specifications. They weren't designing a robotic arm to repetitively attach doors to car bodies in a motorcar assembly plant. The team had no way of knowing the size, shape or stiffness of the objects they would be sampling on the ocean floor. To approximate likely specimens, they visited the produce aisle and brought back an assortment of vegetables – celery, radishes, carrots, bok choy – and tied them to a metal grate that was then dropped into a test tank at the University of Rhode Island (URI), USA. After exhaustive tank tests, the grippers were put through their paces at depths greater than 800 metres off the Rhode Island coast.
Field testing took the team to Israel's Gulf of Eilat in May 2015. There they conducted more than a dozen dives ranging from 100 to 170 metres. Most dives involved "catch and release" manoeuvres to test system performance. But they did manipulate the grippers to retrieve samples of delicate (and relatively abundant) red soft coral, as well as difficult-to-snag coral whips, bringing them to the surface undamaged in the ROV's cargo tray.
But simply collecting hard-to-harvest samples isn't the end-game. Researchers like Gruber hope to apply these techniques to conduct in situ measurement of organisms, and eventually, gene expression and transcriptomic analysis.
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Latitude: 51.3882 / 51°23'17"N
Longitude: -0.4537 / 0°27'13"W
OS Eastings: 507694
OS Northings: 166601
OS Grid: TQ076666
Mapcode National: GBR 29.B9F
Mapcode Global: VHFTY.3C0M
Entry Name: Monument Dedicated to Margaret Love Peacock, North of Church of St Nicholas
Listing Date: 24 September 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1029699
English Heritage Legacy ID: 287988
Location: Spelthorne, Surrey, TW17
County: Surrey
District: Spelthorne
Town: Spelthorne
Electoral Ward/Division: Shepperton Town
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Surrey
Church of England Parish: St Nicholas Shepperton
Church of England Diocese: London
3/17 Monument dedicated
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Headstone. Dated 1826 and dedicated to Margaret Love Peacock, daughter of the
Poet Thomas Love Peacock. Stone. Arched head with end finials. Inscribed with
an epitaph in the form of a poem composed by Thomas Love Peacock as follows:-
"Long night succeeds thy little day
Oh blighted blossom can it be
That this gray stone and grassy clay
Have closed out anxious care of thee.
The half-formed words of liveliest thought
That spoke a mind beyond thy years
The song the dance by nature caught
The sunny smile the transient tears.
The symmetry of face and form
The age with light and life replete
The little heart so fondly warm
The voice so musically sweet.
The saddest to in memory of
Around the hearts that loved the cling
She leaving with long and regret
The in promise of thy spring".
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2018 chrysler 300 Has a New Style
Considering that present model is offered with all-wheel drive and V8 motor, at that point this is truly tremendous stride for Chrysler. In the event that they utilize this new stage, at that point clearly enormous V8 motors are good and gone. There are still no insights about plan, yet it will most likely hold its well known strong and square shaped outline. Shorter wheelbase and shorter hood are additionally expected on future 2018 Chrysler 300. Current model is as of now extremely agreeable auto, however with the arrival of new model, solace will be significantly more moved forward.
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The outside of the 2018 Chrysler 300 stays much the same for the new model year. Client's adoration the looks, so there isn't a gigantic motivating force for Chrysler to transform it at this time.
The front grille is solid and the primary staple toward the front. Contingent upon what trim you get, this will come in chrome or dark chrome. Contingent upon what grille you get, it can truly change the character of the auto.
Dark chrome makes the 2018 Chrysler 300 look more forceful, while the standard chrome grille conveys a more general upscale look to the front.
The headlights are fixed with splendid LED diodes to help the 2018 Chrysler 300 emerge in movement, alongside quad mist lights. The 2018 Chrysler 300s and SRT trims include a clogged pore light lodging too.
Past the front, whatever is left of the 2018 Chrysler 300 is entirely plain. A tall rooftop line, long trunk and scarcely any character make up whatever remains of the 2018 Chrysler 300. The vehicle is to a greater extent an antisocial one, yet the outline of the Chrysler 300 has not changed since 2006.
The main things that are engaging are the wheel decisions. Other than that, the 2018 The Chrysler 300 keeps on being a style touch up of a 2006 model.
Chrysler's 300 doesn't look especially terrible, however observing a similar thing for more than 10 years gets monotonous.
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Within the 2018 Chrysler 300 is considerably more pleasant than the inside of the Chrysler 200. Nonetheless, there are a couple of likenesses that do resound the reality it is a mass delivered Chrysler.
The rearward sitting arrangement is fairly extensive, Beats Audio is extraordinary and the infotainment uConnect gets a refresh.
Presently for the dismal parts. While the new UConnect can perceive swipe signals and multi-touch inputs, the screen is quite little.
Indeed, even with the accessible 8.4 inch screen, the plan of the inside makes it look small contrasted with contenders.
The seats are agreeable, yet not suited for more fun driving. The absence of supporting makes it hard to remain set up, which can be an issue when you settle on the 300S.
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Considering that forthcoming Chrysler 300 will utilize front-wheel drive stage, it is exceedingly improbable that it will get V8 motor as some time recently. Rather, future 2018 Chrysler 300 motor decision will comprise of two V6 units. V6 motor in base model will create around 320 drive and 290 lb-ft of torque. Second motor could be either 3.2 or 3.6-liter turbocharged V6 powertrain. Most extreme power that could be pressed from this Chrysler V6 motor is set at 400 pull and 400 lb-ft of torque. Both motors will be mated to a 9-speed programmed transmission. Chrysler 300 efficiency specs are not declared up until this point. They ought to be accessible after some more Chrysler 300 street testing.
2018 chrysler 300 Price & Release Date
2018 Chrysler 300 discharge date may be set before the finish of 2017. Data around 2018 Chrysler 300 cost are not accessible right now, but rather we ought to get more points of interest as discharge date gest nearer.


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CRB Tech reviews will enlist some predictions for 2016, as far as web marketing and SEO is concerned. Based on these predictions, if you wish to begin a career in this field, you can undergo an SEO course in Pune.
It's that mystical time of the year where, yet again, we analyze the forecasts for the year that has passed by, and make new ones for the one ahead. In view of how it is done in the past, you can get a feeling of how truly to take the thoughts for what's to come. Be that as it may, in the event that you'd like, you can simply skip right to the 2016 forecasts.
Let's take a look at them one by one.
Twitter would emerge as a winner yet again.
It's been an unpleasant couple years for Twitter, yet one is bullish on the organization in 2016 and long haul. It requires new CEOs some investment to right the boat and it requires investment for changes in an organization's leadership to affect their development. It may be towards the end of 2016, however we accept we're going to see numbers from Twitter that enhance their position in market and their stock value.
There's adaptability in the features managed by Twitter, consolidated with the way their stream and intensification capacity makes for much more noteworthy inventive and substance potential than the cutoff points forced by Facebook and Instagram in their organic streams (which is not to say that Facebook and Instagram aren't unfathomable open doors themselves — they both are).
Emergence of adblocking is going to initiate attempts at legislation and incite additional sites to block adblocking users
Adblocking was a piece of a colossal discussion in 2015, and our speculation is that the response to this developing innovation is going to copy how dug in players have responded to innovation jumps in the past — by attempting to administer it away. We envision that in either the US or the EU, some type of government activity will emerge (in the US, in all probability because of campaigning AKA our legitimized arrangement of bribes) to "protect the interests of publishers and journalists who serve the public good."
In the event that careful quote shows up from a source, I think I ought to get twofold the focuses, isn't that right?
Yext bound to IPO, initiating more liking in the world of local listings:
Two years ago, there were various articles anticipating Yext's IPO. It didn't happen in 2015, yet we think this is the year. They've executed well, assembled a channel with their contracts and their intense sales team, and they play in a space where organizations frantically require help — local listings.
Mobile growth rate is expected to slow down:
It is not certain if 2015 was the year of mobile phones, however one thinks 2016 will be the year that development rates for mobiles start decreasing. Note — we are not saying we're at "top mobile," but rather stating the development rate has achieved its zenith and we think in 2016, the rate development numbers will fall.
At the same time, we think we may have achieved the crest of laptop/tablet fall, and it is expected that in 2016, desktop use rates will stay to a great extent unaltered. Most everything that mobile was going to supplant or detract from desktop use has been taken, and it is incredulous that things like inventive work, programming, long-form writing, PC gaming, and different assignments that enormous screens and full keyboard+mouse inputs were made for can be effectively torn apart by the screen that fits in our pockets.
Data will disclose Google organic results to have <70% CTR
For a long time, Google gave open numbers about the proportion of advertisements to organic click through rate. Generally, these were between 80–85% for organic results and 15–20% for advertisements. In any case, throughout recent years, Google's been getting unfathomably forceful with non-organic results (AdWords formats, instant answers, knowledge graph and so forth). We think 2016 is the year we show signs of better data and genuine results regardless of the search monster's silence on the subject.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - 11:21
Bishop Peter Anibati Abia says when the soldiers started shooting the guns they told the Christian inside the church to sleep down and not to get out till they finish their operations.
He mentions that during the incident none of his Christian was harm.
Bishop Anibati reveals that after the guns stopped Christians were told to get out and go to their homes safely after they found one dead body at the church compound.
The Bishop says what the soldiers did is clear indication that the soldiers protect the integrity of the country and its people.
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The Merrie Monarch Festival was great reminder of the power of Hawaiian culture and the spirituality of our shared home. It also showed us how much we have to do to get our economic engine churning again.
The festival did generate work. The Hilo office was the only unemployment to show a net decline in new jobless claims that week. On the other hand, the festival barely moved the needle on 54% Big Island hotel occupancy.
The Hawaii Tourism Authority sees our cultural festivals, celebrating all our cultural roots, as a significant source of repeat visitors, the kind of visitors who appreciate Hawaii as much as we do ourselves. We've got that going for us, and we've got the airlines betting on us, with five percent more airline seats than last year.
Let's pour on the aloha! Let's make sure those who visit us this spring have unforgettably wonderful visits. That'll help us get the kind of economic rebound our families need.
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I feel you are doing it all wrong. If it's of no help to yourself or the soul next to you now or later, then it's all naive and total waste of time.
May be it's time you review the course of your action or prayer.
Keep smiling and be positive, that's the simplest and the best form of prayer if you are confused. Later when you have time, please explore about it more with positive conscience. It is supposed to go hand in hand together like earth and the sky.


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Heels on the bar at frontend, release to heel hang
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Swing out from the platform. At the frontend, bring the legs up in front and hook your heels onto the bar with your butt up close to the bar. At the backend, put your head back. Just before the peak at the frontend, let go of your hands and hang down from your heels for a split second before making the catch.
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Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me - the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.
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Washington, DC: A $16.8 million settlement has been reached in an unpaid overtime class action lawsuit pending against Kellogg's Co. If the preliminary settlement receives final approval it will end four years of litigation.
According to the original lawsuit, filed by Patricia Thomas, Kellogg's deprived territory managers and retail store representatives of premium pay when they worked overtime, in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
The settlement resolves the current complaint, which is is the third amended version, filed in 2014. It alleged that territory managers and retail store representatives were often working upwards of 60 hours a week but that Kellogg's failed to pay the time-and-a-half premium rate that the workers say they're owed.
If plaintiffs did not prove Kellogg's willfully violated the FLSA, then 144 plaintiffs (or 20% of the class) would recover nothing," the class said in its bid to get the judge's approval of the settlement. "Or if Kellogg's proved that the fluctuating workweek applies, but plaintiffs prevailed on everything else, plaintiffs recovery would reduce to approximately 30% of their total damages."
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Well, I picked up our Chinese visas this morning! The line for pick-ups was even shorter than the queue I was in four days ago so after I paid with my credit card, I was in and out in a jiffy. I must add that the lady behind the thick glass window was not very friendly -- after she had located our passports in one of the boxes, she threw them down the transaction tray at me! Rude!
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Where the other Pierce Brosnan films deconstructed James Bond, Die Another Day is merely content to nostalgically look back at and reference the past. We have a visit to the old gadgets room where we see mothballed devices such as the jet backpack from Thunderball (1965), the briefcase and the shoe with a dagger from From Russia with Love (1963) and the crocodile submarine from Octopussy (1983). There is an appearance of the book A Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies (1936) whose author, James Bond, Ian Fleming borrowed the name of the character from. Halle Berrys appearance out of the ocean in a bikini of course quotes Ursula Andresss famous poster shot entrance in Dr No (1962) and there is a hi-tech revamping of the laser deathtrap sequence from Goldfinger (1964). Even the plot involving a diamond smuggling operation and an orbital laser weapon is strikingly reminiscent of the plot for the film version of Diamonds Are Forever (1971), while the villain who is surgically altered and becomes a successful British industrialist has been taken from the original character of Hugo Drax in Ian Flemings Moonraker (1955) novel.
At the outset, Die Another Day at least seems to be a much more plot and character-driven James Bond film than usual. The Bond AWOL plot worked well in License to Kill (1989) and does again here, although after a strong beginning, the rest of the film lapses to formula. The credits sequence is inventively set in and around images of Bond being tortured, while the usual silhouetted dancing girls are dazzlingly set to the films dual imagery of ice and fire. Alas, the credits sequence is severely hampered by Madonnas techno theme song, which is unqualifiedly the worst ever title song in the history of the James Bond series. The film also has a much higher content of outrightly science-fictional gadgetry than the series has had in some years with an invisible Aston Martin, exo-skeletal suits, solar lasers, Virtual Reality training simulations (which leads to a very silly climactic sequence where Miss Moneypenny, who is otherwise completely unused throughout, gets to finally make out with Bond) and the nonsensical notion of gene replacement therapies as a handy means of gaining a new identity.
Die Another Day works with intermittent success as a James Bond film. One problem is that the film never seems to know what to do with Halle Berry. She has a stunning entrance redoing the Ursula Andress bikini shot from Dr No and an even better exit from the scene avoiding gun-toting heavies by stripping to a bikini and diving off a cliff. The pre-release publicity made a big thing about how she had been created as a female equivalent of Bond who could get in there and kick ass with the same sort of ruthlessness he did. However, bar one or two impressive action scenes in the sanitarium in Cuba and particularly the climactic swordfight, she seems underused in this department. The film also seems uncertain whether she should be a traditional Bond heroine who is only there to be rescued and then fall into bed with Bond, or one who should be kicking ass alongside. Part of the problem could be Halle Berry herself who, aside from her Academy Award win for Monsters Ball (2001), I am not entirely convinced is a standout actress. Her toughness here seems to alternate with a flippant happy-go-lucky persona it gives the impression that Berry lacked a clear idea of the character she was trying to create. Any presence she has consists more of her ability to look good in a bikini or skintight leather than it does any animal growl she radiates. Certainly as a character who is designed to act as a female equivalent of Bond, it would be hard to ever imagine her having the presence to carry her own series of films (an idea that was briefly tossed around after Die Another Day came out), let along one that is still going strong forty years later.
On the other hand, the exquisitely glacial Rosamund Pike has the screen presence that Halle Berry fails to bring to the film. When Pike emerges with sword towards the end of the film, the effect is breathtaking. One wishes it were her that had been at the centre of the film more than Halle Berry. Toby Stephens, a mainstay of British period dramas who one last saw on screen as an anguished milquetoast photographer in the fascinating Photographing Fairies (1997) and then went onto to play real-life spy Kim Philby in the superb British mini-series Cambridge Spies (2003), is certainly an unusual choice for supervillain. It is a role that one can almost imagine had been written for Hugh Grant and Toby Stephens does rather well in the part.
One thing that the modern Pierce Brosnan James Bond films have done is sought diverse directors for each entry, rather than kept them in-house and made by the same director as was the case with every entry up until the casting of Brosnan. For Die Another Day, they recruit New Zealander Lee Tamahori. Lee Tamahori, formerly a commercials director, first caught attention with the searing Once Were Warriors (1994), a grimly realistic portrait of life among the disenfranchised, poor urban Maori. The international festival success of Once Were Warriors gained Lee Tamahori access to a series of Hollywood films of variable quality, beginning with the unliked film noir Mulholland Falls (1996), which vanished with barely a ripple; then the acclaimed wilderness survival drama The Edge (1997), before the successful but utterly banal thriller Along Came a Spider (2001). Despite the great promise as a major action director that he showed here, Lee Tamahori has proven himself no judge of decent projects, subsequently going on to make the laughable xXx: State of the Union/xXx: The Next Level (2005) and then the Philip K. Dick adaptation Next (2007), before bouncing back to acclaim again with the Saddam Hussein film The Devils Double (2011).
The one thing that Lee Tamahori certainly brings to the film is a spectacular action flourish. The Pierce Brosnan films have all oddly been lacking in standout action sequences but Tamahori makes Die Another Day the most spectacular of the entire Pierce Brosnan era with scenes that include:- a ferocious swordfight between Brosnan and Toby Stephens; a dazzling sequence where Bond is pursued across the ice in a rocket sled by a line of laser fire that then starts sawing through the cliff as he hangs over the edge; and an incredible climax with the various parties fighting in a bomber that is rapidly disintegrating around them and with Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry bailing out amid a rain of burning debris in a falling helicopter that refuses to start. Some of the action sequences fail to quite work the car chase around the interior of the ice palace seems too cramped; the fight in front of the laser seems just a flashing animated lights; and there is a very silly sequence with Bond makeshift surfing on a tidal wave that fails through some really unconvincing visual effects (and moreover brings back cringe-inducing memories of the pre-credits sequence in A View to a Kill (1985), which had Bond surfing to the Beach Boys).
The other James Bond films are: Dr No (1962), From Russia with Love (non-genre, 1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majestys Secret Service (1969), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Live and Let Die (1973), The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (non-genre, 1981), Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), The Living Daylights (non-genre, 1987), License to Kill (non-genre, 1989), GoldenEye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World is Not Enough (1999), Casino Royale (non-genre, 2006), Quantum of Solace (non-genre, 2008), Skyfall (non-genre, 2012) and Spectre (2015). Casino Royale (1967) and Never Say Never Again (1983) are non-series Bond films. Everything or Nothing (2012) is a documentary about the Bond series.
(Nominee for Best Supporting Actress (Rosamund Pike) at this sites Best of 2002 Awards. No. 9 on the SF, Horror & Fantasy Box-Office Top 10 of 2002 list).
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Palmer to Pro Bowl
The Cincinnati Bengals were on fire on Sunday against the Detroit Lions. Our team was a force to be reckoned with and dominated the Lions fully for the whole game. It's no surprise that we have five players going to the Pro Bowl from different parts of our team. The chosen are Willie Anderson right tackle, Chad Johnson wide receiver, Carson Palmer quarterback, and Shayne Graham kicker. Palmer has an NFL record thirty touchdown passes and has more completions than anyone in the NFL. He's been making records and breaking them all season and has led his team to the playoffs.
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More about Alexander Technique
Learning the Technique is a practical process guided by a trained teacher. You do not need to know the technical details, however if you would like to know more here is a more technical description of the process of the Technique.
The Power of Habit
We all acknowledge the power of habit in our lives, and in general we tend to think of habits in negative terms, things we do that we would prefer not to do. However, imagine what it would be to have to think deliberately to control all our actions. Habits mean we do not have to think so much, and are free to focus on other things while the habit takes care of the details. In fact the term 'habit' is just another way of saying something has been well learnt and practised to the point of being unconscious.
But… what about habits, or learned reactions and behaviours that are harmful?
Just about anything will come to feel normal and automatic if we do if for long enough, including ways of thinking and moving that are harmful to health and well-being. Some straightforward examples of harmful movement habits include bending at the waist instead of the hip joints, holding the shoulders back, trying to stand up by contracting muscles in the neck and upper back. Each of these (and many others) tend in time to lead to stress and pain.
This is what Alexander faced when he found he could not use his voice to recite without tightening in his throat, a habit that was leading to pain and hoarseness whenever he performed.
Use and Function
Changes in the body due to poor habits of movement occur gradually and the effects build up over time. In this way poor habits have deep and long-lasting effects on health, well being and performance. The way you use yourself will affect your functioning over time; as Alexander discovered for himself, so it is for everyone…
The way you use yourself, affects the way you function
F.M. Alexander
How to change habits?
As many people have discovered, it is not so easy to change harmful habits. Some things are easier to change than others, willpower may assist with things like changes in diet and exercise, habits that have been 'trained in' by repetitive practise are often not changeable so easily.
To change habits may not be easy, however Alexander developed a reliable method that you can use.
First you have to have some idea of what you are doing. It is very often the case that a person knows they have a problem, but are not clear about what they are doing that is causing the problem. The Alexander teacher is often in the situation of helping someone stop doing something that they did not know they were doing in the first place!
The second reason habits can be hard to change is that they often feel right to do, even when they are harming you!
At first your habit feels 'normal' and any changes we make may seem odd or wrong. You may feel you are leaning forward for example, when you are actually upright. Alexander called this 'faulty sensory perception'… and it can be corrected!
Alexander discovered these things by observing his own movement in a mirror over a long period of time. The Alexander technique as we teach it today also involves self-observation, your teacher will assist with how to go about this. This practise develops the skill of mindfulness in action.
Conscious Control
You can begin developing this skill by observing how you are moving without attempting to judge or change it at first.
It is necessary to be mindful in order to change habits, as we all have a tendency to jump into action without giving thought to how we are organising ourselves. Alexander called this "end-gaining" and it is the primary barrier to effective change.
To be mindful means you can pause or wait before reacting, and you can think more clearly about what you are doing as you do it. This allows you to begin changing habits by preventing them. Alexander called this process 'inhibition'. The process of inhibition gives the opportunity to make better choices about how to go about your activities.
So, what comes next?
Alexander discovered that there is a certain relationship in movement between the head, back and legs which promotes ease of action and reaction, preventing harmful pressure and loss of coordination between the parts. The Alexander Technique aims to assist you to improve this dynamic relationship. Alexander called it the 'Primary Control' of our coordination.
Alexander had stumbled upon a fundamental aspect of the movement of all vertebrates that is normally controlled automatically by deep reflexes that support posture and action. These reflexes generate automatic muscle tone that will generate beautifully free and flowing coordination when they are not interfered with. Scientist Rudolf Magnus called this principle: "The Head Leads and the Body Follows".
Thinking in Activity
The automatic muscle tone or reflex activity that supports you is not controlled directly. You can't make a reflex work just by 'doing' it. You can however influence reflex responses. Alexander developed an effective method to do this involving an understanding of the directions of movement of parts in relation to each other. It is through the use of conscious 'direction' of yourself that you can improve the use of the primary control and other aspects of your movement.
When you combine the practise of mindfulness in action described above, with a conscious direction of your primary control you can overcome previously difficult and unchangeable harmful habits. We call this "Thinking in Activity".
The Result
Your Alexander teacher helps you to master this process and over time you will re-train your habits, taking away unnecessary pressure and re-invigorating your postural and movement reflexes. Your sensory appreciation will become accurate and it will no longer feel right to do the wrong thing. This is a process of personal renewal.
After having practised this for some time, Alexander came to the conclusion that
it is impossible to separate "mental" and "physical" processes in any form of human activity
F.M. Alexander
These days this is often called "mind-body unity".
The Principles
In the brief discussion above we have covered the central discoveries and principles discovered by F.M. Alexander
These include:
- The Power of Habit
- Use affects Function
- Faulty sensory appreciation – sensory re-education
- Self-observation or mindfulness
- Inhibition and Direction
- Primary Control – the Head leadns, the body follows
- Non-doing and Indirect methods for change
- Thinking in Activity
- Psycho-physical (mind-body) Unity
Whew, I hope you followed all that. Don't worry, Alexander lessons are actually very practical and straightforward .
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Bulls Willing to Do Anything to Avoid Falling into Market AbyssJun 10, 2010: 11:31 AM CST
I think all of us chart watchers are focused intently on the epic Battle of 1,040, but I wanted to pull the perspective back for those who aren't as accustomed to studying charts to show exactly why the market is balanced "on the Edge of a Cliff" and why the bulls holding above key support here is of utmost importance to them.
Let's start first with the Monthly Chart and build down from there:
The 200 month simple moving average – the last line of support from a multiple timeframe moving average perspective (that just means looking at moving averages for potential support zones on three timeframes) rests at 1,048.
As chartists, we hold prior price lows as important expected support levels, and those include:
1,044 from February 2010,
1,040 from May 2010
1,042 from June 2010
then also
1,029 from November 2009
1,019 from October 2009
In terms of standard analysis, there is nothing major in the way of support under these levels except the round number 1,000.
I think the Weekly Chart probably shows the "Abyss" most clearly:
We can see all the price lows that form the boundary or the quite literal "Edge of the Cliff" for the market.
The edge is here, and the final level is 1,000. Under that, we're looking to the July 2009 low at 850 as the next potential support zone.
And if we're under 850, we look back to 666. That's just using simple technical analysis – nothing complex.
Keep in mind we are under all moving average levels – the waving lines on the chart – which now are expected to be resistance – no longer support
Notice how price bounced off these averages on the way up in 2009 and fell down from these levels on the way down in 2008.
Finally, here we are at the Edge of the Cliff:
The fact that we see three LONG lower shadows in February, May, and June underscore to me how seriously the market participants take this level.
They're willing to do anything possible to keep the market above these levels. As long as we're above them, it's like were looking down into an abyss, and it's dangerous to look over the edge of the cliff, but just because you're at the edge doesn't mean you're going to fall over.
If the market does fall over the cliff, it will be far more difficult to support the market than it would be above the level.
It's like trying to catch a person who's leaning over the edge and pull him back over, or trying to catch him as he's falling.
I cannot underscore how important it is to monitor the current level extraordinarly closely – from whatever perspective or position you have.
From a simple charting/technical analysis perspective, there is nothing – chart wise – to hold up this market from a likely downturn into a new downtrend if bulls lose the battle of 1,040 (then 1,000).
Corey Rosenbloom, CMT
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